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Post by gatalis on Apr 24, 2012 18:26:53 GMT -5
Starting a thread for paradoxial DnD situations I think up off the top of my head! (most of which DMs would never approve.)
Feel free to contribute!
Hmm, so I was thinking today...
Half-Celestials are required to be good.
Vashar, Half-Devils, and Half-Demons are required to be evil.
If a Celestial and a Vashar/Devil/Demon got together (willingly or otherwise) and had a child, than would said child be required to be evil due to their evil parent's racial requirements, or good because of their Half-Celestial racial requirements?
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Post by xkcdapostle on Apr 24, 2012 19:26:19 GMT -5
I roll bluff, with the bluff being, "This sentence is a lie". Should you fail or succeed the roll, you enter a paradoxical situation. (Thank you Kurt Godel for this one.)
If I think of any more, I shall post them.
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Post by Dr.Thor on May 11, 2012 15:26:17 GMT -5
This might count...
Troll babies are parasites, as well as Slaad eggs. Say a person is infected with both, which creature will burst out alive over the other?
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Post by BALLS OF STEEL on May 12, 2012 4:17:07 GMT -5
Well I think the slaadi eggs grow quicker, though the troll eggs could always explode out of the bloody paste that was left over. Or perhaps a perfectly clean set of troll eggs are all that would remain of the person after the Slaad was born.
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Post by gatalis on May 12, 2012 18:39:12 GMT -5
Hmm, I thought of a good one...
pun-pun build vs. pun-pun build
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Post by cainon on May 16, 2012 0:57:39 GMT -5
Ok here you go. Get a line of peasants standing in a line two miles long. Give the one at the end of the line a rod and tell him to pass it to the next person. Since passing is a move action you have all the peasants except the one at the front of the line to pass the rod forward. The one at the front readies his action to throw and at that point the rod has traveled two miles in six seconds and is now pretty much a rail gun. Once thrown it has the velocity to demolish castle walls.
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Post by xkcdapostle on May 16, 2012 6:14:04 GMT -5
Does this peasant line trick work for arbitrary distances? (i.e. a 5 mile line, 1 mile line, 100 mile line, etc.)
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Post by cainon on May 23, 2012 6:47:54 GMT -5
Yes it does.
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Post by xkcdapostle on May 23, 2012 7:27:17 GMT -5
So in six seconds one could get, supposing that we had enough peasants, an object or item to travel 48 times across Faerun in six seconds?
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Post by BALLS OF STEEL on May 23, 2012 7:36:47 GMT -5
Sadly D&D does not take physics calculations into consideration with the throwing mechanics
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Post by xkcdapostle on May 23, 2012 8:42:30 GMT -5
Or perhaps it defines a new system of physics, at the end of the day Physicists would rewrite the entire book of rules they have for the universe if they're convinced about something new being true. Though this would be extremely rare, since people tend to stick with what works over a sudden new change, hence why they try to stick with the standard model and have the Large Hadron Collider to look for subatomic particles... Better than String Theory: xkcd.com/171/
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Post by gatalis on May 23, 2012 20:22:46 GMT -5
Actually, the purpose of string theory is to link together the various physics forces (strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electric force, gravitational force, etc.) into one concept so that they can all be piled into a universal equation for simplicity. It's quite cunning really, but if it were ever proven everyone would simply look the other way because it would change our concepts of physics upside down... Kinda like what happened with heat when it was being studied, or quantum theory.
Source: AP Physics Teacher
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Post by xkcdapostle on May 24, 2012 5:09:25 GMT -5
String Theory is a Mathematically beautiful idea. However it has no experiments to back it up and those who support it have come up with reasons to continue their support when experiments fail to prove string theory. A quote from www.nucleares.unam.mx/~alberto/physics/string.html"But it should also be said that, to date, there is no direct experimental evidence that string theory itself is the correct description of Nature." (I do admit that the site was last updated in 2009...) Feynman's rather famous quote: “I don’t like that they’re not calculating anything, I don’t like that they don’t check their ideas. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation—a fix-up to say, ‘Well, it still might be true.’” The webcomic link I provided simply, and hopefully comically, phrases the idea of String theory ("suppose all matter and energy is made of tiny, vibrating 'strings'."). The unification of all the forces in Physics is suitably covered by this generalisation as all these forces you have listed form part of the make up of all matter and energy. However, the comic is only for humour. (Another one for humour: xkcd.com/848/ ) I can't find your source, Google tells me that I must trudge through 400000 odd results... If it is a course book, then it is possibly out of date with the level that Physics is at today for the purpose of teaching you Physics that the course is designed for.
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Post by gatalis on May 24, 2012 15:24:54 GMT -5
Not sure if joking or not... But if you weren't, I was sayign my source was my AP/honors physics teacher... I have to give that one to you though in that there hasn't been enough evidence yet to justify string theory
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Post by gatalis on Aug 3, 2012 19:05:44 GMT -5
Just thought of one:
Druid casts Earthfast, and mage proceeds to cast permanency on it.
The stone's now permanently doubled in strength, but the druid moves outside the spell range.
Does it remain permanent as per permanency, or does the spell dissipate?
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